WORLD TOUR 1994
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NOVEMBER 30 1993
After a lapse of five years, Pink Floyd touchdown with a new album,
ground-breaking show and a substantial European Tour, taking in more
than 29 shows in 18 countries commencing in July 1994.
Pink Floyd make no use of video, concentrating on an array of
extraordinary special effects, using both the stage and the audience
itself. Key visual aspects of the show were conceived by the band,
Production Designer Mark Fisher and Marc Brickman. Mark Fisher is
renowned for his remarkable set designs, including such epics as Pink
Floyd's "The Wall", the Stones Steel Wheels set and tours for U2, Tina
Turner, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, George Michael and Simply Red.
Marc Brickman, the show's director and Lightning Designer, has credits
which include Bruce Springsteen, the Nelson Mandela tribute concert,
the Barcelona Olympics and Arnold Schwarzeneggar's movie The Running
Man. Along with the band he has devised an extraordinary light show,
including lasers which have been banned in certain parts of the world
because they are reputedly strong enough to split the atom! David
Gilmour comments, "Everyone involved in the creation of the show meets
up on a weekly basis to design and create the show in 'brainstroming
sessions' to produce what we hope will be the ultimate live
spectacle."
It is a massive production and the stage is one of the largest and
most complex ever devised. A number of identical stages will be built
for use in alternative cities, leap-frogging around the continent
courtesy of a massive fleet of ground transportation. The stage takes
48 trucks of steel, 3 days and 120 men to erect.
The last time Pink Floyd, who incidentally will be rehearsing in the
world's biggest aircraft hangar, came into our orbit was the 1987/89
"Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour", which lasted 19 months, and played
200 shows to 5.5 million people. The tour voyaged around Europe,
including Russia and the legendary free show floating on a barge in
the Venice lagoon. Pink Floyd have sold a total of 140 million records
worldwide including the third best seller of all time at 28 million
copies, "The Dark Side of the Moon", which at over 700 weeks in the
Billboard charts, is the longest running US chart album ever.
Pink Floyd have set the controls for the heart of the 21st Century.
For further information please contact Alan Edwards or Liam McCoy at
Poole Edwards 071 436 3633
THE EUROPEAN TOUR - 1994
July 22 Lisbon Stadium Alvalade
27 Barcelona Olympic Stadium
30 Paris Chateau De Chantilly
August 2 Cologne Mungersdorfer Stadium
4 Munich Olympic Stadium
6 Basel St. Jakob Football Stadium
9 Montpelier Amphitheatre Du Chateau De Grammont
11 Bordeaux Esplanade Des Quinconces
13 Hockenheim Hockenheim Ring
19 Vienna Weiner Neustaft Airfield
21 Berlin Maifeld
23 Hannover Neidersachsenstadion
25 Copenhagen Parken
27 Gothenburg Ullevi
29 Oslo Valle Hovin
September 1 Helsinki Olympic Stadium
4 Rotterdam Feyenoord
7 Prague Strahov Stadium
9 Strasbourg Stade De La Meinau
11 Lyon Stade Du Gerland
13 Turin Stadio Delle Alpi
15 Udine Stadio Friuli
17 Modena Festa Nazionale Del Unita
20 Rome Ippodromo Tor Di Valle
There will be further shows in Germany and Spain, and Pink Floyd will
also play in Belgium, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. Full Details TBA.
The UK shows will be announced in the new years.